Book description
In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the
ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and
institutions that most concern us today: the interplay between
economic factors and politics, the struggle to find a balance between
the state and the individual, the role of the intellectual. Most of
the books in this series centre on the great focal periods, those of
great literature and art: the world of Herodotus and the tragedians,
Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Caesar, Virgil, Horace and Tacitus.
This study traces Greek science through the work of the
Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic
writers, Plato, the fourth-century B. C. astronomers and Aristotle. G.
E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and
philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and
economic setting of Greek science; he analyses the motives and
incentives of the different groups of writers.
